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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:13:34 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        andrew@sedona.net (Andrew S. Clapp)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tests
Message-ID:  <199604300143.LAA18051@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604291946.NAA24176@merlin.sedona.net> from "Andrew S. Clapp" at Apr 29, 96 01:46:45 pm

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Andrew S. Clapp stands accused of saying:
> 
> Anybody know where to find a benchmark package like dhry?
> We are pitting solaris-x86 against freebsd!  :-)  Oughtta
> be a interesting race as sunsoft says that 2.5 is "supposed"
> to be competitive.

Why would an operating system significantly bias a CPU speed benchmark?

If you're interested in OS speed, you want things like 'bytebench' and
'lmbench' and 'bonnie', all of which are in the FreeBSD ports collection.

> Andrew S. Clapp                                                 Sedona Internet

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